In Code: A Mathematical Journey

Flannery, David; Flannery, Sarah

ISBN 10 : 1861972717 ISBN 13 : 9781861972712

Editeur : Profile Books, 2001

Synopsis

Sarah Flannery is a cryptographer and mathematician already with an international reputation. She is also a sport-loving Co. Cork teenager who takes her Leaving Certificate next year. In this remarkable book, written with her father, her first maths teacher, she writes about her life, mathematics and making codes - and this extraordinary year. That is just one of the scores of media comments from all over the world which followed Sarah's winning this January, at the age of 16, the Irish Young Scientist of the Year award with a highly innovative, speedy and secure system of encoding data on the Internet. Since then she has travelled the world and lectured, and had approaches from many computer companies and universities. Her system still needs full peer evaluation but what is not in doubt is the originality of her mathematical mind. Her book offers many different things: it is a fresh and modest self-portrait by a girl who is the reverse of a comic-strip swot; it is an inspiring account of a mathematical education; with many puzzles and examples it offers a mass of insights into cryptography and numeracy.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

David Flannery was born in 1952. He lectures in mathematics at Cork Institute of Technology.

Sarah Flannery was born in 1982. She is the eldest of five children and is currently studying Computer Science at Cambridge. Her parents and four brothers live in Blarney, Co. Cork.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861972717
• ISBN 13: 9781861972712
• Reliure: Ropa
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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